Monday, March 11, 2019

Ships and Aircraft Display at Buffalo and Erie Military Park

Everyone has a preference when it comes to parks and recreation. We specifically like military parks like the one we we went to in Pensacola Florida and Corpus Cristi, Texas. The recent one we visited is the Buffalo and Erie Military Park in Buffalo, New York. Among the ships that were on the display include the USS Little Rock, USS The Sullivans, and USS Croaker. The ships in the park remain property of the United States Navy which inspects them annually.

Along with the ships, there are variety of smaller vehicles, vessels, and aircraft that are also on display at the park. These include the following:

Gyrodyne X-Ron 1 Rotorcycle one-man helicopter used by the US Marine Corps in the late fifties and early sixties,

A Navy FJ Fury (FJ-4) jet (equivalent to the Air Force's F-86 Sabre), and

A USAAF P-39 Airacobra manufactured at Bell Aircraft in Buffalo which saw service in World War II.

The sail and rudder of the submarine USS Boston are also on display here.

In 1976 the Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency and the Buffalo Naval and Servicemen's Park requested the United States Department of the Navy to supply a decommissioned naval vessel to construct a naval park.The Cleveland-class cruiser USS Little Rock and the Fletcher-class destroyer USS The Sullivans were part of the original display. In 1988 the Gato-class submarine USS Croaker was added. In 1989 Croaker underwent a refit. -

On December 16, 2017 USS Little Rock (LCS-9) was commissioned at the park alongside its namesake USS Little Rock (CG-4). The commissioning was the first time a United States Naval vessel was commissioned alongside its namesake.

I wish we have a big military park like this in our area. The only memorial park dedicated to the service members here is a display of old equipment but then again, our city small. We do however a lot of veterans that came from this area and we have so many display of their names on designated places.